English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

The Meg and Meg Cottages

Other OS name in the Parish of Hexton

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. Meg Plantation c. 1840TA . It takes its name from a stream called Meg or Roaring Meg now piped at this point but coming to the surface farther north ( see fully under Roaring Megg Plantation infra 115 ) .